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NetShops, Inc. Donates Furniture for Deserving Family Featured on ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'

NetShops, Inc. Donates Furniture for Deserving Family Featured on ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- NetShops, Inc., a leader in online web retailing, today announced that the company has donated a large assortment of outdoor furniture to a deserving family that will be featured on ABC's hit series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

The Tutwiler family has been hard hit by two separate incidents. Patrick Tutwiler, a U.S. soldier, was shot in the neck by an Iraqi sniper. The attack left Tutwiler with traumatic brain injury, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, memory loss and speech problems. Less than one year after his return home, Tutwiler's modest home was hit by an F4 tornado. Patrick and his wife, Crystal, pulled the family into a closet and used their bodies as human shields while the tornado tore the house apart. Patrick, Crystal, their four children and nephew were living on a nearby military base temporarily until Patrick was given his official military discharge. Due to Patrick's injuries and his current part-time employment, the family's finances can't afford to rebuild or purchase a new home. ABC-TV's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which airs on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET, spent the week of Nov. 11th, 2008, building this dedicated soldier a safer and stronger place that the family can call home.

Omaha, Neb.-based NetShops, Inc. proudly contributed to the seven-day transformation of a new home for the Tutwiler family in Chapman, Kansas. NetShops, Inc. donated unique, quality outdoor patio furniture, including four rocking chairs, two matching side tables and one porch swing. The furniture will be used to refurbish the Tutwiler's outdoor porch and the town's damaged community safehouse, which will now double as a community center for the elderly.

"NetShops, Inc. was thrilled to provide the Tutwiler family and Chapman safehouse with new outdoor patio furniture," said Ash ElDifrawi, Chief Marketing Officer, NetShops, Inc. "Our vast assortment of online stores and breadth of hard-to-find products allowed the talented designers from 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' to quickly find exactly what they wanted to complete the look of the Tutwiler's new home."

The Tutwiler's story will be featured in a special 2-hour sweeps episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" tentatively scheduled to air from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, January 25, 2009.

About ABC-TVs Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which has won back-to-back Emmy Awards as Best Reality Program (non-competitive), is entering its 6th season on ABC. The program is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. Anthony Dominici is the executive producer; and David Goldberg is the president of Endemol USA.

About NetShops, Inc.

NetShops owns and operates over 230 online specialty stores, including hammocks.com, barstools.com and patioumbrellas.com. In 2006, NetShops was named the nation's 13th fastest growing company in America by Inc. Magazine. In 2007, it was rated the 104th largest online retailer in the U.S. by Internet Retailer and in 2008, the company was rated the 82nd largest online retailer as well as being placed on Internet Retailer's "Hot 100" list of companies. NetShops was founded by Doug Nielsen, Mark Hasebroock and Julie Mahloch when they acquired the Web site Hammocks.com and started selling hammocks online. They soon recognized a tremendous opportunity in developing multiple, specialty e-commerce Web sites, each selling a specific line of products. NetShops now owns and operates over 230 online stores in categories ranging from binoculars to barstools to hammocks for every part of the customer's home -- living room, bedroom, bath, kitchen, office, garage, yard, garden and more. NetShops, Inc. is privately held and funded by Insight Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The company employs approximately 300 people and is based in Omaha, Neb. NetShops' corporate Web site is http://www.netshops.com/.


Source: NetShops, Inc.

CONTACT: Media Contact, Kendra Thornton, +1-773-525-6110,
kendra@thorntonpr.com, for NetShops, Inc.

Web site: http://www.netshops.com/


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